• no essential meaning
• no solid foundation
• no original (no use in searching for origins)
• reality constructed by discourse
• denotations and connotations – no final meaning
• knowledge is a construct
• IMAGE-MUSIC-TEXT (Barthes) (audience rewrites the meaning of the text as they read it – the death of the author) (no clear divisions between criticism and creation)
The Death-of-the-Author concept was most cogently expressed by Bill Kerr in an episode of Hancock's Half Hour, explaining his typing technique: "I only hit the keys; after that, they're on their own."
ReplyDeletePoststructuralists quickly become critical realists as soon as they are faced with a) effects of gravity such that life (their own) is endangered or b) financial ruin.
ReplyDelete